Voices of the American Past Documents in U.S. History, Volume II: Since 1865

by Hyser, Raymond M.; Arndt, J. Chris

• ISBN13: 9780534643010
• ISBN10: 0534643019
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-15
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

VOICES OF THE AMERICAN PAST is a two-volume reader that presents a variety of diverse perspectives through more than 230 primary sources. Excerpts from speeches, letters, journals, political cartoons, magazine articles, hearings and government documents raise issues from both public and private aspects of American life throughout history. A "Guide to Reading and Interpreting Documents" in the front matter explains how and why historians use primary source evidence, and outlines basic points to help students learn to analyze sources. Brief headnotes set each source into context. "Questions to Consider" precede each document, offering prompts for critical thinking and reflection. The volumes are organized chronologically into 31 chapters, with the Reconstruction chapter overlapping in both volumes -- corresponding to the splits of most survey texts. In this new Third Edition, the selection of new documents was guided by the editors' desire to provide greater diversity of voices while also offering readable selections that speak to larger issues. This edition offers well known primary sources such as Federalist 10 and President Eisenhower's farewell address, as well as Cotton Mather's admonitions on the evils of "self-pollution," a woman's description of the southern homefront during the Civil War, John Muir's essay on American forests, and recent East Asian immigrant's description of life in America. The most significant change, however, is the addition of visual images, taking the text beyond the use of documents traditionally found in other readers.

Table of Contents

PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION	xvii
A GUIDE TO READING AND INTERPRETING DOCUMENTS AND IMAGES	xix
CHAPTER 16 Reconstruction	267	(21)
120 A Northern Teacher's View of the Freedmen (1863-65)	267	(3)
121 Charleston, South Carolina at the Conclusion of the Civil War (1865)	270	(2)
122 African Americans Seek Protection (1865)	272	(2)
123 Thaddeus Stevens on Reconstruction and the South (1865)	274	(2)
124 A White Southern Perspective on Reconstruction (1868)	276	(3)
125 The Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction (1872)	279	(4)
126 "The Problem at the South" (1871)	283	(3)
127 African-American Suffrage in the South (1867, 1876)	286	(2)
CHAPTER 17 The West	288	(18)
128 A Native American Remembers Life on the Great Plains (1870's)	288	(2)
129 A Century of Dishonor (1881)	290	(3)
130 A Western Newspaper Editorial on the Custer Massacre (1876)	293	(2)
131 Cultural Exchange on the Arizona Frontier (1874)	295	(2)
132 A Native American Remembers the Ghost Dance (1890)	297	(3)
133 Life on the Prairie Farms (1893)	300	(2)
134 "The Significance of the Frontier in American History" (1893)	302	(4)
CHAPTER 18 The Expansion of Big Business	306	(19)
135 The Cattle Industry (1884)	306	(3)
136 The Impact of Mechanization (1889)	309	(3)
137 Progress and Poverty (1882)	312	(2)
138 "The Forgotten Man" (1883)	314	(3)
139 The Success of Standard Oil (1899)	317	(3)
140 The Gospel of Wealth (1889)	320	(3)
141 Views on the Trusts (1889, 1899)	323	(2)
CHAPTER 19 How the Other Half Lives	325	(23)
142 Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor (1878)	325	(2)
143 The "Long Turn" in Steel (1910)	327	(3)
144 Views of Urban Life (1890s)	330	(1)
145 Lynching in the South (1895)	331	(3)
146 "The Negro Question in the South" (1892)	334	(2)
147 W.E.B. Du Bois on Race Relations (1903)	336	(3)
148 The Unwanted Immigrants: The Chinese (1878)	339	(3)
149 An Italian Immigrant's Experience in America (1902)	342	(3)
150 "The Story of a Sweatshop Girl" (1902)	345	(3)
CHAPTER 20 Imperialism	348	(19)
151 Our Country (1891)	348	(3)
152 The Sinking of the Maine (1898)	351	(2)
153 Aquinaldo's Call for Philippine Independence (1899)	353	(1)
154 An Anti-Imperialist Perspective (1899)	354	(3)
155 The New Manifest Destiny (1900)	357	(3)
156 "A Colombian View of the Panama Canal Question" (1903)	360	(2)
157 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)	362	(2)
158 Perspectives on Imperialism	364	(3)
CHAPTER 21 The Progressive Movement	367	(19)
159 An Insider's View of Hull House	367	(3)
160 Boss Government at Work (1903)	370	(2)
161 "The American Forests" (1901)	372	(3)
162 The Jungle (1906)	375	(2)
163 The New Nationalism of Theodore Roosevelt (1912)	377	(3)
164 "A Progressive Illusion" (1912)	380	(2)
165 "Why Women Should Vote" (1910)	382	(4)
CHAPTER 22 Making the World Safe for Democracy	386	(18)
166 Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message (1917)	386	(3)
167 The Question of First Amendment Rights (1919)	389	(2)
168 A Soldier's View of the War (1918)	391	(2)
169 The Homefront War (1917-18)	393	(2)
170 Opposition to the League of Nations (1919)	395
171 The New Negro (1925)	318	(83)
172 The Red Scare (1920)	401	(3)
CHAPTER 23 The Return to "Normalcy"	404	(20)
173 The Lure of Amusement Parks (1922)	404	(3)
174 The Role of Advertising (1922)	407	(3)
175 The Impact of the Automobile (1922)	410	(2)
176 Religion and the Scopes Trial (1925)	412	(2)
177 The Ku Klux Klan's Perspective (1926)	414	(3)
178 The New Woman (1927)	417	(3)
179 American Individualism (1928)	420	(4)
CHAPTER 24 FDR and the New Deal	424	(19)
180 Urban Families in the Great Depression (1931)	424	(2)
181 Franklin D. Roosevelt's First Inaugural Address (1933)	426	(3)
182 The "Share Our Wealth" Plan (1933)	429	(2)
183 A Businessman's View of the New Deal (1934)	431	(3)
184 The "Dust Bowl" (1935)	434	(2)
185 The Tennessee Valley Authority (1937)	436	(3)
186 Frances Perkins Endorses the Social Security Act (1935)	439	(2)
187 Perspectives on the New Deal	441	(2)
CHAPTER 25 Isolationism and World War II	443	(19)
188 The Four Freedoms (1941)	443	(3)
189 Isolation from the European War (1941)	446	(2)
190 Roosevelt's Declaration of War Message (1941)	448	(2)
191 Life in a Japanese Internment Camp (1942)	450	(2)
192 Women in the Homefront War Effort (1942)	452	(3)
193 The Second World War Homefront (1942-45)	455	(2)
194 Truman's Decision to Drop the Bomb (1945)	457	(2)
195 Remembering the Hiroshima Atomic Blast (1945)	459	(3)
CHAPTER 26 Postwar America	462	(20)
196 "Containment" (1946)	462	(5)
197 Communists in the Government (1950)	467	(2)
198 Governor Herman Talmadge's Statement on the Brown Decision (1954)	469	(2)
199 An African-American Newspaper Editorial on the Little Rock Crisis (1957)	471	(2)
200 Suburbanization; Levittown, New York (1950)	473	(2)
201 The Impact of Television (1955)	475	(3)
202 Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Address (1961)	478	(4)
CHAPTER 27 The Turbulent Sixties	482	(27)
203 Silent Spring (1962)	482	(3)
204 Port Huron Statement (1962)	485	(3)
205 "The Problem That Has No Name" (1963)	488	(3)
206 Letter from Birmingham Jail (1963)	491	(3)
207 Malcolm X on Race Relations (1965)	494	(3)
208 Lyndon Johnson on the Great Society (1964)	497	(2)
209 "I Made Promises to Dead People" (1967-68)	499	(3)
210 A Report on Racial Violence in the Cities (1968)	502	(3)
211 Cesar Chavez and La Causa (1975)	505	(4)
CHAPTER 28 The Rising Conservative Tide	509	(19)
212 Roe a Wade (1972)	509	(3)
213 Richard Nixon and Watergate (1973-74)	512	(2)
214 The Question of Reverse Discrimination (1978)	514	(2)
215 Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-81)	516	(3)
216 The Reagan Revolution (1981)	519	(3)
217 Oliver North's Testimony at the Iran-Contra Hearings (1987)	522	(4)
218 An Editorial on the Removal of the Berlin Wall (1989)	526	(2)
CHAPTER 29 Society and Culture at Century's End	528	(26)
219 Soaring Energy Costs (1974)	528	(2)
220 A Migration to the "Sunbelt" (1976)	530	(3)
221 Discos (1977)	533	(3)
222 A Perspective on AIDS (1987)	536	(3)
223 A View on Hispanic Assimilation (1991)	539	(3)
224 "Dr. Wen Ho Lee As The Model Minority for the 21st Century" (2002)	542	(3)
225 The Changing Demographics of America (1999)	545	(3)
226 Consumer Choice in Automobiles and Its Impact (2000)	548	(3)
227 The Issue of Gay Marriage (2003)	551	(3)
CHAPTER 30 Our Times	554
228 "A New World Order" (1991)	554	(3)
229 Clinton White House Response to the Starr Report (1998)	557	(2)
230 Bill Gates and Microsoft (1998)	559	(4)
231 George W. Bush Responds to the Terrorist Attacks (2001)	563	(3)
232 A Response to the USA-Patriot Act (2001)	566	(3)
233 The United States and the World (2003)	569